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Introduction To The Special Issue On Hate, Prejudice And Discrimination, Robert J. Cramer, Phyllis Gerstenfeld

Community & Environmental Health Faculty Publications

(First paragraph) Welcome to issue 8.4 of the Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research. This issue presents a special initiative addressing hate, prejudice, and discrimination in unique contexts. Articles in this issue reflect a combination of empirical and theoretical work. These articles address a range of timely topics, including, but not limited to, factors influencing perceptions of immigration, demographically based biases in legal decisions, and multi-level framing of aggression and conflict in international settings. Two clear themes emerged to offer new theoretically informed insights into hate, prejudice, and discrimination.

Prisons For Profit: Neoliberal Rationality's Transformation Of America's Prisons, Kelsey Clark

Senior Independent Study Theses

This project examines the dramatic changes in the American prison system that resulted from privatization and deregulation. Using Wendy Brown’s conceptualization of neoliberal rationality, this study focuses on the important neoliberal transformation that resulted in a dramatic increase in privatization of prisons. This transformation has affected more than the institutions themselves, as some argue that even individual rationality has been transformed by neoliberalism. The purpose of this study is to analyze the transformation of American prisons from publicly run to privately operated. The analysis includes how this has affected American prisons and the rationalities of those who advocate on behalf …

Thugs, Crooks, And Rebellious Negroes: Racist And Racialized Media Coverage Of Michael Brown And The Ferguson Demonstrations, Bryan Adamson

Faculty Articles

The article explores how the media constructs news, and offers extensive history on the adverse narrative media tropes about Black men since colonial newspapers. Through qualitative and quantitative analysis of news narratives and images, this article demonstrates how Ferguson accounts emphasized Brown’s deviance and chaos and disorder. After offering comparative analysis of White criminality and protest news narratives, the article presses upon the social effects of racist and racialized media narratives. The article examines the controversy through First Amendment free speech, hate crimes, and true threat principles as well as FCC regulation of broadcasting, and media ownership. While explicating the …

Keeping Up With New Legal Titles, Beau Steenken

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In this book review, Beau Steenken discusses Legal Research Methods by Michael D. Murray & Christy H. DeSanctis.

Undergraduate Catalog, 2016-2017, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Undergraduate Catalogs

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Of Trials, Reparation, And Transformation In Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Making Of A Common Purpose, Andrea Durbach

NYLS Law Review

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“Only Looking Forward: The Absence Of National History In Sierra Leone”, Mneesha Gellman

Emerson Authors, Researchers, & Creators

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“What The World Looks Like”: On Banality And Spectacle, Graham Macphee, Angela Naimou

English Faculty Publications

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Study And Analysis Of Upper Gastrointestinal Symptoms Among Students At The University Of Central Florida, Deberly M. Anzueto

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Upper gastrointestinal symptoms can be caused by many different diseases and can present themselves in many different forms and range in intensity depending on the person. In previous research, upper gastrointestinal symptoms have been correlated with stress, smoking, alcohol intake, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), among others. The purpose of this study will be focusing on finding any association between these risk factors mention and symptoms of upper gastrointestinal disease among college students. The study will utilize an Izumo scale questionnaire for the assessment of abdominal symptoms and Quality of Life (QOL). The questionnaire was built using Survey Monkey and …

No Ground To Stand Upon?: Exploring The Legal, Gender, And Racial Implications Of Stand Your Ground Laws In Cases Of Intimate Partner Violence., Denise Crisafi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Within the past decade, the use of self-defense as defined under Stand Your Ground laws has been the subject of political and legal scrutiny. According to the American Bar Association (2015), twenty-three states have passed Stand Your Ground laws that eliminate the duty to retreat prior to using force in any place that an individual has the right to be. In addition, ten states allow individuals to use or threaten to use force in public or private spaces where they have a right to be under case law (not formal statute) but maintain stricter requirements for how self-defense must be …

Patient Violence And Aggression In Non-Institutional Health Care Settings: Predictors Of Reporting By Healthcare Providers, Colleen Campbell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation is conducted to examine the factors which contribute to the reporting of incidents of violence or aggression perpetrated by patients against health care providers in non-institutional health care settings. With a theoretical foundation grounded in community science, applying stress theory, broken windows theory and the theory of reasoned action, the following cross sectional study examines the contribution of characteristics of the healthcare provider, characteristics of the patient perpetrator and the form of violence to the providers' reporting or failing to report incidents. A self-administered survey was disseminated to a sample of non-institutional healthcare providers to test the research …

K-12 Transition Framework For Students With Disabilties, Clydia Delaney

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The problem of practice that this dissertation addressed was the post-secondary transition of students with disabilities, which has garnered national and international attention for decades. This dissertation was completed to inform the educational community regarding the potential for improvement in the post-secondary transition process of students with disabilities. Multiple factors were examined related to helping students with disabilities develop appropriate skills to transition through school into personally successful, post-secondary activities and environments. A pilot study was conducted to inform a potential transition framework. Invitations to participate in an anonymous survey were sent to 741 teachers in the district via email. …

Making The Invisible Visible: Exploring The Experiences Of Black Male Professionals In Postsecondary Education, Claudine Mclaren Turner

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

College student development literature discusses the challenges faced by historically under-represented groups in college and the role that university personnel play in retaining students from these groups (Brown 2009; Hairston 2013; Kuh et al 2005). Research reveals that Black male students are retained in greater numbers when connected with Black male professionals who: 1) hold them accountable for their choices; and 2) discuss and demonstrate effective coping techniques to deal with race-based challenges that seem to convey colleges and universities are not the appropriate space for young Black men (Bonner and Bailey 2006; Harper 2012; Wynn 2007; Cuyjet 2006). Research …

Open Educational Resources Textbook List, Zachariah Claybaugh, Chelsea Stone

Librarian Publications

Discipline specific OER textbook list for departments at SHU, compiled by Zach Claybaugh and Chelsea Stone.

Reasons For Revealing And Concealing Interpersonal Trauma, Sidney Bennett

Doctoral Dissertations

Prior research has documented the role that revealing and concealing interpersonal violence has on health outcomes for victims (e.g., Ullman, 2010). The present paper aims to add to the existing research by presenting a new model, The Revealing and Concealing Process Model for Interpersonal Trauma, to describe the process that occurs when victims reveal or conceal interpersonal violence. The second stage of the model (i.e., reasons for revealing/concealing interpersonal violence) was tested by: 1. Creating a measure to assess the reasons for revealing and concealing interpersonal violence and 2. Identifying whether getting goals met for revealing/concealing is related to health …

Master Of Public Administration Mission Statement And Overview 2016, Nova Southeastern University

Huizenga Postgraduate Course Catalogs

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Cjus 488.01: Forensic Science - Beyond The Crime Laboratory, Randall R. Skelton

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Psyx 391.01: Special Topics - Forensic Psychology, Laura G. Kirsch

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Sleuthing Scientific Evidence Information On The Internet, Carol Henderson, Diana Botluk

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Missing White Woman Syndrome: An Empirical Analysis Of Race And Gender Disparities In Online News Coverage Of Missing Persons, Zach Sommers

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

At any given time, there are tens of thousands of Americans categorized as “missing” by law enforcement. However, only a fraction of those individuals receive news coverage, leading some commentators to hypothesize that missing persons with certain characteristics are more likely to garner media attention than others: namely, white women and girls. Empirical investigation into this theory is surprisingly sparse and also limited in multiple ways. This paper aims to fill those voids by empirically exploring whether that inequality, dubbed “Missing White Woman Syndrome,” truly exists. Based on a multi-method approach using Federal Bureau of Investigation data and data culled …

Product Counterfeiting Legislation In The United States: A Review And Assessment Of Characteristics, Remedies, And Penalties, Jeremy M. Wilson Ph.D, Brandon A. Sullivan Ph.D, Travis Johnson, Roy Fenoff Ph.D, Kari Kammel

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Product counterfeiting crimes have detrimental effects on consumers, brand owners, public health, the economy, and even national security. Over time, as product counterfeiting crimes and the response to them have evolved, U.S. federal legislation has developed and state legislation has followed suit, but with considerable variation across the states. The purpose of this article is to place product counterfeiting in the context of intellectual property rights, provide a historical review of relevant federal legislation, and systematically examine the extent to which state laws differ in terms of characteristics, remedies, and penalties. Additionally, we calculate indices of civil and criminal protections …

The Long Goodbye: After The Innocence Movement, Does The Attorney-Client Relationship Ever End?, Lara A. Bazelon

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Inspired by the Innocence Movement, the American Bar Association has placed an unprecedented new obligation on defense counsel in the form of an “Innocence Standard.” This new rule imposes an affirmative “duty to act” upon criminal defense attorneys who learn of newly discovered evidence that a former client may be innocent.

The new Standard, while well-intentioned, reconceives the traditional defense attorney function, creating an ethical parity between prosecutors and defense attorneys in wrongful conviction cases while overlooking the fact that the two sides play distinct and incompatible roles in our adversarial system. While prosecutors must to seek the truth and …

Police Body Cameras In Large Police Departments, Barak Ariel

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Body Worn Cameras are spreading worldwide, under the assumption that police performance, conduct, accountability, and legitimacy, in the eyes of the public, are enhanced as a result of using these devices. In addition, suspects’ demeanor during police–public engagements is hypothesized to change as a result of the video-recording of the encounter. For both parties—officers and suspects—the theoretical mechanism that underpins these behavioral changes is deterrence theory, self-awareness theory, or both. Yet evidence on the efficacy of Body Worn Cameras remains largely anecdotal, with only one rigorous study, from a small force in Rialto, California, validating the hypotheses. How Body Worn …

Criminalizing Terrorism In Canada: Investigating The Sentencing Outcomes Of Terrorist Offenders From 1963 To 2010, Joanna Amirault, Martin Bouchard, Graham Farrell, Martin A. Andresen

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Despite having endured significant terrorist incidents over the past 50 years, terrorism-specific offenses were not criminalized in Canada until the implementation of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) in 2001. One of the primary goals of this legislation was to provide law enforcement with the tools necessary to proactively prevent terrorist incidents; however, the effectiveness of these new legal measures in preventing terrorist incidents, and the potential for the increased punishment of offenders sanctioned under them, remains unclear. Using a sample of convicted terrorist offenders (n = 153) from the Officially Adjudicated Terrorists in Canada (OATC) dataset, the current study investigates …

Twenty-First Century Regression: The Disparate Impact Of Hiv Transmission Laws On Gay Men, Siobhán Elizabeth Stade Murillo

Emory International Law Review

In this Comment, Siobhán Murillo analyzes United States legislation that criminalizes HIV transmission amongst gay men and compares these statutes to similar ones in Uganda, Australia, and Niger. The Comment discusses the history of HIV/AIDS and the historical discrimination against homosexual men in the United States since states began enacting HIV-specific criminalization laws in the late 1980s. However, these laws fuel the stigma surrounding HIV and disparately impact gay men. Siobhán Murillo explores the more appropriate solution: to create a new model criminal statute that criminalizes the transmission of HIV/AIDS but has stricter intent requirements, a higher level of scrutiny, …

The Daily Gamecock, Monday, August 22, 2016, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

August

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The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, February 11, 2016, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

February

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The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, January 14, 2016, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

January

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The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, January 25, 2016, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

January

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The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, March 30, 2016, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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